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HOW TO - Make Firefox run totally in system ram...


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Ah Ha , I knew there had to be more stuff like this out there..

http://www.cenatek.com/product_rocketdrive.cfm

I've got one of those:

img_rocketdrive_large.jpg

In fact, my review of it used to be THE "front page" review over @ CENATEK too, until the server housing my review there went down (wasn't mine), & the page was lost... "oh well!", lol!

Anyhow/Anyways, I use it for:

PARTITION #1 of 2 (1gb of 2gb total):

    Web-Browser program webpage caches (from ALL of my webbrowsers (IE, FF, Opera))

    Logging (from OS eventlogs, to all kinds of application logs (such as WinZip & other apps can maintain for you, or DrWtsn32 logs & more))

    %temp% AND %tmp% temporary application + OS operations (done via Systemwide Environment Variables change, to that location, via System Icon in Control Panel, Advanced Section)

    %comspec% location (another Systemwide Environment Variable that is alterable, as is the one just prior to this)

&

PARTITION #2 of 2 (1gb of 2gb total):

    PageFile.Sys location

&, more too... I've been using it since 2002 (before that for MANY years, doing the same stuff pretty much, albeit on software-based RAMDrive programs instead (well, editing, except for pagefile.sys placements)).

(AND, it works for performance gains, since SSD's access 1000's of times F A S T E R than std. electro-mechanical HDD (hardisk drives), since SSDs/Solid-State Drives (true ones like this one, NOT 'flash RAM' based ones, which are good for reads of data, but SLOW on writes typically & tend to 'wear out' after repeated read/write cycles far faster than TRUE SSD's do by far, even with wear levelling tricks built into newer FLASH based SSD's)

Moving these files &/or operations to a 2nd HDD & of std. electro-mechanical variety, but, doing on an SSD is a bigger performance gain, by far. It's very noticeable!

The gains manifest themselves by removing excessive/unnecessary head movement burden + fragmentation of files on your MAIN OS + Program bearing disk(s), & the access/seek is many, MANY orders of magnitude better on SSD's than std. HDD's... & FAR faster paging operations result as well...

Now, on the latter (HDD's)?

Well, I 'enhance' those units performance here, via a PCI-Express (full speed 2) unit, the Promise Ex8350 128 ECC Ram RAID 6 capable Caching SATA 1/2 Controller:

promise-card1.jpg

:)

Running Dual "Raptor 'X'"'s in RAID 1 mirror (for datasecurity/redundancy) - & these disks come w/ 16mb buffers on them too, @ 10,000 rpm speed... but, removing the excessive head movements + fragmentation caused by logs, webpage caches, temp ops & more? They speed up more, yet again/still...

APK

P.S.=> There is a BETTER model than this one out there now, so you know (CENATEK RocketDrive uses PCI 2.2 bus tech, 133mb/sec capable + PC-133 SDRAM)... it's called the GIGABYTE IRAM:

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It's SATA 150 bus can go up to 150mb/sec. transferral rates, & that is 17mb/sec BETTER than the CENATEK RocketDrive even, AND, it uses a F A S T E R RAM type, in DDR-400 iirc...

My next system IS going to have one of those GIGABYTE IRAM units (& this machine I use now that has the RocketDrive in it will become a server here, instead of my primary workstation... as do ALL of my older rigs, eventually)... apk

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Here's something really awesome -

http://www.wikihow.com/Speed-Up-Firefox-by-Running-It-In-RAM

http://users.compaqnet.be/cn021945/RAMDisk/ramdiskfree.htm

Then be sure to look up all the latest Mods and Tweaks to wrench even more speed out of Firefox...

What do you think...?

I just started using Firefox and love it. thanks for the tips on making it faster

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Here's something really awesome -

http://www.wikihow.com/Speed-Up-Firefox-by-Running-It-In-RAM

http://users.compaqnet.be/cn021945/RAMDisk/ramdiskfree.htm

Then be sure to look up all the latest Mods and Tweaks to wrench even more speed out of Firefox...

What do you think...?

I just started using Firefox and love it. thanks for the tips on making it faster

you are welcome.... :flowers:

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